Device



A. KIMMEL.

DOUGH CUTTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SBPT.25, 1908.

Patented June 22, 1909.

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T ANDREW KIMMEL, OF REYNOLDSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

no'UGHfcU'rTING DEVICE.

No. esmero.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .nine 22, 1909.

Application filed September 26,91908. Serial No. 454,798.

glhia invention relates to a dough cutting device, and the primary object of my invention is to provide a novel device having interchangeable cutting cylinders yforcutting and trimmin dough into differenticonfigurations before tie same is baked, whereby cakes of different-.configurations can be obtained.

Another object of my invention is fto provide a novel rolling device that can be easily and quickly manipulated to successfullycut and trim dou h and similar plastic material.

A further o ject of the invention is to provide a slmple and durable device that can be advantageously used in bakeries, also as a culinary article for facilitating the making of cakes, wafers, cookies and similar edibles.

With the above and other objects in view which will more readily appear as the invention's better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be presently described and then specifically claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is an elevation of my dough cutting device, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, Fig. 3 is aplan partly broken away and partly in section, Fig. 4 is a lan of one form of cutting and trimming cy der, Figs. 5 to 7 inclusive are similar views of cylinders of diiferent designs,` Fig. 8 is a cross-sectional view of. the cylinder illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings, and Fig. 9 is a detail sectional view of a portion of the device.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 and 2 designate parallel arms having the ends 3` thereof' bent inwardly and connected together by. bolts 4 and nuts 5, said bolts supporting andles 6. The arms 1 and 2 are provided with central enlargements in which are journaled a transverse bolt 8 retained in said enlar ements by a nut 9. The enlargement 7 of the arm 2, which receives the headed end 10 of the bolt, is provided with a recess 11 for a slide plate 12, said slide plate being des' ed to cover the headed end of the revolu le bolt 10 and prevent flour or similar material from interfering with the bearing of the bolt 10. The recess 11 is sufficientlyv large to permit of the slide plate 12 being e the nut 9 is unscrewed from the opposite end thereof. r

Mounted upon the revoluble bolt 8 is a drum 13 having a longitudinal dove-tailed groove 14 formed therein. This groove is adapted to receive an interior longitudinal rib 15 carried by a metallic cylinder 16 adapted to fit upon the drum 13. The cylinder 16 is placed upon the drum 13 by removing the arm 2, this being accomplished by removing the nuts 5 and 9, elevating the slide plate 12 and withdrawing the arm 2 and the revoluble bolt 8. The cylinder 16 shown in Figs. 4 and 8 has the ends thereof previded with peripheral flan es 17 and with longitudinal equally space peripheral ribs 18, dividing the periphery of the cylinder into compartments adapted to receive dough as the cutting device 1s passed over a batch of dough that has been previously rolled to a desired thickness by a rolling in or similar device. The design of the cy inder 16 and the plasticity of the dou h permits of oblong cakes being formed, whi e the design of' the cylinders shown in Figs. 5 to 7 inclusive permits of cakes of various conf urations-parallelogram, triangular or ova -being cut or trimmed from dough.

My dough cutting device with the exce tion of the handles 6, which are preferably made of wood, is made of a light and noncorrosive metal.

It is thought that the utility and operation of my device will be fully understood, and while in the drawings there is illustrated the preferred embodiments of my invention, l reserve the right to make alterations in the structural elements thereof without departin from the spirit of the invention.

aving now described my invention what I claim as new, is

1. A dough cutting device comprising two parallel arms, detachable handles connecting the ends of said arms, a detachable bolt journaled transversely of said arms, a slide plate carried by one of said arms for covering one end of said bolt, a drum mounted upon said bolt and having a dove-tailed longitudinal groove formed therein, a cylinder mounted upon said drum, an interior longitudinal rib carried by said cylinder and adapted to engage in said groove, peripheral flanges carried by said cylinder at the ends thereof, and drum, an interior longitudinal rib carried by peripheral ribs carried b said c linder besaid cylinderand ada ted to enga e in said tween said anges, su stantia ly as degroove, and periphera ribs cam by vsaid scribed. cylinder, substantially as described.

5 2. A dough cutting device com rising par- In testimony whereof I aix my signature allel arms, handles connecting t e ends of in the presence of two witnesses.

said arms, a detachable drum' revolubly g ANDREW KIMIMEL'. mounted between said arms, said drum hav- Witnesses: ing a longitudinal dove-tailed groove formed MAX H. SRoLovrrz,

10 therein, a cylinder adapted to it upon said C. V. BROOKS. 

